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Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host, Andrew Rines, and let's get into this episode. This episode is going to be grand Ole To Operate Original Air Date September 20, 1952 Title of this episode is Casey Jones. We've got Red Foley in the host role and this is another Prince Albert production. They were the sponsor. Hope you enjoy and again, thanks for listening.
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It's Scrand Ole Opry time. Another big Prince Albert show starring Red Bully.
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Kiss Jones was a mighty man but now he's a wrestling in the promised land the kind of music he could understand was a six eight wheeler under his he made Fred train boogie all the time he made Fred train boogie.
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Eyes roll down the line.
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Now when that farmer started ringing the bell Everybody along the line could tell Kissy Jonesy was a coming to town on a six, eight Whee was burning the ground he made the Freight train boogie all the time he made the freight train boogie as he rolled down the line. He made Fred train boogie all the time he made Fred Crane boogie ads roll down in line. Thank you, thank you. And a great big howdy to all of my good friends and neighbors of Prince Albert Smokin Tobacco's Grand Old Opry.
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And what an all star lineup we've.
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Got for the folks tonight. Red, here's Rod Brassfield and Minnie Pearl.
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Claude Sharp and the Old Hickory Singers.
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Stringbean and the entire PA gang.
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Yes, and what a surprise we've got for everybody, Grant. All the way from Hollywood's motion picture studios, the one and only Smiley Frog Burnett. Yes, sir. Molly is back there warming up the frog in his throat right now. But he'll be out here in a few minutes. Right now, here is a little guy from Hornwall, Tennessee. The most comical fellow that I think I ever have known, Rod Brassfield.
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Thank you, man.
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Thank you for that there fine music. Hi to Ms. Foley.
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Hi to Ms. Brassfield.
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Ms. Foley. Now, if I don't look like I'm myself or act like I ain't gotten a good sense tonight, it's because I slept on a pool table last night and I'm all balled up.
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You are a killer, Rod. What have you got to say for yourself this evening, huh?
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Say for myself?
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Yeah.
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Well, Reg, you know what we always say about this time of year. Summer is gone, winter drawers on.
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That.
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Just killed me to get one like that off. Hi, dear friends. It's sort of cool tonight, ain't it?
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Yeah.
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Getting a little cool sort of, Foley.
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Yep, sure is. You know, Mr. Foley, you. You wouldn't know it just to look at me, but I'm the kissing champion of Hornwall. Yes, sir, Bonnet, I am. I'm the kissing champion of Hornwall. And also. And also the neighboring city of Shirtail.
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Shirt Tail.
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Yeah. Shirail.
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Where in the world is that?
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Down near the county seat. Hey, Red, you don't believe it, but.
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By that I am.
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I'm the kissing champion, boy.
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Yeah, don't you believe it? Yeah, I believe you, Rod. In fact, I heard some girls talking about it.
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You did?
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Yes, sure enough, yes.
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What'd they say, Red?
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Well, they said, did you ever take a good look at Rod Brassfield?
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Yeah.
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What a kisser.
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They did. What a kisser. Oh.
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Oh, flitter.
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You, you. Oh, you can stand there and laugh.
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You want to, but I know one gal that thinks I'm handsome.
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Yeah? What? One of them Lee Lee sisters.
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Lee sister? Yeah, one of Them Lee sisters, you know.
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Look, Lee, we heard walking around the other night.
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She says, rodney, take me in your arms and kiss me, boy. Kiss me till the cows come home. I said I'd just as soon wait and kiss one of them cows when they get here. Hey, Red, talking about cows. By Ned, I'm the best milking hand you ever seen, buddy.
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You are?
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Yes, sir.
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Boy.
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Rod, you know it's not easy to milk a cow correctly.
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Oh, Red, ain't none to it. Don't be silly. Any little jerk can do it. Hey, Red, didn't I tell you they had the police call out from Uncle Sipe last night.
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They did?
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Yeah.
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What in the world happened?
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Well, he got locked up by accident in a liquor store.
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Oh, no.
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Yeah.
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In a liquor store?
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Yeah.
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Boy, you oughta yer that there police feller says. Calling all cars. Calling all cars. Man locked in liquor store. Proceed with caution, man.
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May be loaded. There.
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Rhett speaking.
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Speaking of Uncle Seif, when I was coming up here tonight on the bus, I looked out the window and looked up at them and I looked at the moon and I thought of Uncle Sipe.
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What made you think Uncle Sam?
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It was a full moon. Hey, Red, I want to ask you a question.
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All right.
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What part of the human being, the human anatomy, is the yet?
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The what?
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The yet. Y E t yet. What part of the person is the yet?
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Wait a minute, Rod. I don't know.
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Why?
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Well, I got a card yesterday. Got a card yesterday from Aunt Lyler and she said some fellers was a squirrel hunting out back of their house the other day, and one of them accidentally shot her daughter with a.22 rifle. And the bullet was in her yet. Hey, Ms. Foley, you know the fire's been going on here all week.
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Safe fire.
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I went out there last night, boy, I had me some food.
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You really did?
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Yes. Sure did have some fun. Yeah, it made me think of when I was a little bitty boy, Red, at home there. I went to the fair one fall and my daddy says to me, says, rodney, now whatever you do, don't you go into them girl shows where they got that there dancing, that there hula hula danchin.
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I don't blame him. Yeah, yeah.
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Says, don't you go in there, son, because you might see something that you oughtn't to see.
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That's right.
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Well, you know what I do.
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What did you do?
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I sneaked off and went in. I went in one of them and read Barnett. Paul was right. I seen something more than just seen.
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What'd you See?
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Huh?
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I said what my daddy sitting right.
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On the front row.
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Oh, Rodney, they loved you tonight. But don't go too far because I want you to hear what my buddy has said.
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Well, sir, tonight's very extra special guest has come to see us a couple of times before. And each time he's more entertaining than ever. His movies sort of keep him out in Hollywood most of the time, but every now and then he escapes and heads up our way. Friends, if you happen to hear a horse laugh, you'll know that he once worked in a cowboy picture with our good friend Smiley Frog Burnett. Yes, sir. Smiley, you know we feel real real honored having you here with us tonight.
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Well, our doggies read the pleasure is all mine. You know, I just wouldn't dream of turning down an invitation to this offering. Besides, I need the money.
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Well, I tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna make you earn your keep around here. Starting off with a typical Smiley Burnett tune, one that you wrote and recorded, called It's My Lazy Day.
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Will. Therefore. Well I might have gone a fishing I got to thinking it over.
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And.
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The road to the river oh it's a mighty long way it must be the season no rhyme or no reason I'm taking it easy it's my lazy day Just you never mind the calling for I ain't a coming you can get ya on by me Stay out of my way Very little deep thinking would just drive me to drinkin I'm thinking it easy it's my lazy day I ain't asking no questions I ain't a givin advice I ain't dating any women I ain't wanting to play I'm just gonna look stupid I don't want to meet Cupid I'm taking it easy it's my lazy day I'm finding it easy do my own business I'm keeping my nose out I belong for one's way I ain't a takin order I ain't a hiring of people I'm taking it easy it's my lazy day.
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My my Finally. That show was a tasty bit there. Just like Prince Albert's fine tasting smoking tobacco. Well, it's time now for a little musical meditation, friends. And that means that we're going to sing you one of the sweetest of all the old sacred songs. It's called the Last Mile of the Way. If I walk in the pathway of beauty if I work till the close of the day I shall see the great king in his beauty When I drunk the last mile of the week.
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When I've gone the last mile of.
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The week I will rest at the close of the day and I know there are joys that await me When I've gone the last mile of the week. Hear the dearest of times we must.
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Sever.
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Tears of sorrow are seen every.
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Day.
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But no sickness, no sighing forever When I've gone the last mile of the week When I've gone the last.
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Mile of the way.
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I will rest at the close of the day and I know there are joys that await.
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Me.
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When I've gone the last mile of the week. Thanks, folks. Thanks a lot. Well, here comes a friend of ours with something mighty important on his mind.
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Well, the Old Hickory Singers never fail to Come up with a welcome memory or two of the good old days Tonight the old timer that they've picked out Is one called In a little red barn on a farm down in Indiana yes.
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In a little red barn on a farm down in Indiana Let me lay my back on a stack of your mown hay Found the barnyard where the farmyard folks are palling dilly Daddy old live long day I'm a.
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Hoosier hoo hoo hoo through and through.
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And my heart is fighting for the sycamore trees where the wall makes breezes big what's more I'm pining for a yellow moon that's shining On a little red barn On a farm down Indiana way. In a little red barn on a farm down in Indian and to lay my back on a stack of new mown hay Round the farmyard where the farmyard folks are planning Daddy, Daddy all the long day I'm a hoosing sloop through and through and my heart is pining all the sycamore trees where the wabash breezes play what's more I'm planning For a yellow moon that's shiny On a little red barn On a farm down Indiana Way down in the alleyway.
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Well, if you like your news fresh off the press, then you won't want to miss a word of what the boss lady of the Grinder Switch Gazette has to say. Here she is, Prince Albert's favorite princess and our best gal, Cousin Minnie Pearl.
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I'm just proud to be here. Well, sir, I'm lucky to be here tonight. I just had a sandwich across the street and somebody told me it was one of them there old restaurants with a historical background to it. I'm pretty sure it was one of them old historical places. All right. I got a couple of eggs from the original Plymouth Rock. They had the funniest names for the sandwiches over there. They had a sandwich there called a Mother in Law Sandwich. That's cold shoulder and spice tongue. But now for some news from the switch Red Foley. It's good to have old Smiley Burnett back here.
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Oh, he's a sight for sore eyes, isn't he?
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Yeah, he's an awful nice feller. Except he's always pulling jokes on me. He don't mean none of them, but he does.
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What'd he say?
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Oh, well, he said I'd gained a lot of weight since the last time he was here. I said, what are you talking about? I said, I lost 10 pounds last month. He says, turn around. I think I found it. But did I tell you, red, that my cousin Cromwell is out of the navy.
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Cousin Cromwell? Oh, he's the lady killer, ain't he?
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Oh, yes. All the girls just go for crummy. That runs in our family, you know. All is attractive to the opposite sex. All of us men and ladies and everybody well, too. When he was out in the. What you call, the highway, there was two hula hula hula dancers. You know, both fell in love with him.
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Both of them?
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Yeah.
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It was awful.
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Tell me this. How did the two hula hula dancers decide which one was gonna get him?
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Oh, they pulled straws for him. Well done, Aunt Ambrosey. I'll have to tell you about her. No. But they wiggled out of it, all right. That's her. Aunt Ambrosey. She's been feeling awful puny lately. So Uncle Nabob thought he'd better call Doc Payne to come and look at her up there at the switch. And the doctor just took aunt Ambrose's pulse and stuff. And then he says to her husband, that's uncle Nabob. That's aunt Ambrose's husband. He says to uncle Nabob, he says, mmm, I don't like her looks. And Uncle Nabob says, I don't either. But I want to know what's wrong with her innards right now. So he told uncle Nabob to go down and get her some medicine. And he got her some. He'd like to kill aunt Ambrose. It want the medicine. Heard her. It is. The directions on the bottle said, take it two nights a running and skip a night. That was bad. Them nights she took it a running. Them night she had to take it to skipping. That like to kill aunt Ambrose. Her not well. Too well, sir. That reminds me of all the trouble we having at the switch right now. Some of the boys down at the general store thought they'd play a joke on Lace Plodgett. So when he come in one night, they said they'd just been past his house and seen another man in there kissing his wife. They did. They said, there's somebody else in there. And Leif just sat down on a chair and he just started saying, I can't understand it. I can't understand it. And the fellers thought maybe they'd went a little too fur. So Doug Schneider says, what can't you understand, Laith? That your wife could be untrue by kissing another man? And Laith said, no, but I can't understand it. I've got to kiss her. But what's his excuse? Lake was the one that right after he'd been married about 10 or 14 years, he read a little poem about getting married. And I thought all you married fellers here and are listening in would like to hear it. It goes something like this. There's nothing like a wedding to make a fellow learn. At first he thinks she's his' n and later finds out he's hern. But.
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Yeah, he is.
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That Same one for the kids.
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Finally. Yeah, you got something sort of special here for the little boys and girls. Yeah, what is it? Uncle Noah's Ark. That's a good one, buddy.
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Take it away. Now, a long, long time ago, as you boys and girls should know, Uncle Noah built himself an ark. And for 40 days and nights the rain was sure a fright and the animals nearly tore his old ark apart. Oh, the duck went quack and the.
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Cow went moving the rooster's cock a.
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Doodle doo and the old tomcatcher raised an awful rouse.
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Wow.
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The little pig squealed and the billy gooped bad and the bullfrog says, biggest.
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Friend we ever had.
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Uncle Noah's Ark's a madhouse now. Oh, the horses and the cattle and the fowls of the air. Even the long eared jassack was there.
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Whack.
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The owl said, whoo, cockadoodle doo. All were there in Uncle Noah's ark. Oh, the duck went quacking, the cow went move.
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The roosters cocky doodle doo.
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And the old tomcatcher raised an awful row. Little pig squealed in the billy goat bad.
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And the bullfrog says, biggest rain we ever had.
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Uncle Noah's Ark's mad house now. Oh, the horses and the cattle and the fowls on the air. Even the long eared jazzack was there. They all said, who cocky do do do over there in Uncle's.
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Wonderful smiley, wonderful voice. Well, we got. There's old string bean over there, the prince. Alberto's vice president in charge of banjo picking. And he's already started in on little Liza Jane string. Let's hear it.
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Well, I got a gal in Baltimore Little Liza Jane street car run right by told Little Liza Jane oh, little Liza, little Liza Jane oh, little Liza, little Liza Jane. Welcome my love and go and meet little Liza Jane we'll go back to Tennessee to little Liza Jane. Oh, little Liza, little Liza Jane oh, little Liza, little Liza Jane. Talk about the pretty girl. Aren't she my little eyes again? Right good looking misses Some fine little Liza James. Oh, little Liza, little Liza Jane oh, little L.
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Well, sir, friends, I. Seems like I've come to the point where I'd better be doing a little singing show here myself. And we picked a ballad that we just recently recorded we hope you folks will enjoy, called Are you trying to tell me goodbye? Makes no difference what I do Seems like nothing pleases you. Are you trying to tell me goodbye? When you're kissing me good night? You don't hold me quite as tight. Are you trying to tell me goodbye? You know it would hurt me if we had to part. Are you just being kind to the.
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Dreams in my heart?
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Am I worrying in vain? Is your love for me the same? Are you trying to tell me goodbye? You know it would hurt me if we had to part. Are you just being kind to the.
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Dreams in my heart?
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Am I worrying vain? Is your love for me the same? Are you trying to tell me goodbye? Well, thank you, friends, but that's about all the time we have for tonight. But before we leave, I'd like to remind all you good folks that regardless of who your favorite candidate may be, you can't vote unless you're registered. So be sure and register, won't you? We'll all be back in a week from the night and with one of the prettiest little gal singers you've ever seen or heard, Ms. Sue Thompson. Meanwhile, this is Red Bull is saying. Thanks a lot for everything. And one more thing, friends, ask the man for choice, Prince Albert. The next time you buy your smoking tobacco, I bet you'll be mighty glad you did. Well, I'll be seeing you next Saturday night now at Prince Albert smoking tobacco's grand Old Opry. Although generally mission tickets are always available. If you're planning to make a trip to Prince Albert Scandal Opry, be sure.
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To write 13 weeks in advance for.
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Your reserve seat tickets.
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Prince Albert Strand Ole Opry came to you from WSM in Nashville, Tennessee. This is NBC, the national broadcasting Company.
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Digitally Restored Broadcast, Presented by Andrew Rhynes
Featured Host and Performers: Red Foley, Smiley Burnett, Rod Brassfield, Minnie Pearl, Claude Sharp & the Old Hickory Singers, Stringbean
This episode transports listeners back to the Golden Age of radio variety, showcasing an authentic 1952 broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry sponsored by Prince Albert Tobacco. Hosted by the beloved Red Foley, the show blends homespun comedy, classic American songcraft, character-driven storytelling, and live musical performances. Special guests include film and radio comedian Smiley Burnett, the charming Minnie Pearl, comic Rod Brassfield, and musical numbers by Foley and supporting acts.
The episode radiates down-home warmth, quick-witted humor, and classic Opry musicality. The interplay between Red Foley and his guests is playful, supportive, and delivered in a gentle Southern cadence. The show strikes a balance between laughter, sentimentality, and community spirit—a hallmark of early radio variety entertainment.
For listeners new and old, this episode brings classic country spirit, warmth, humor, and a slice of rural Americana, thanks to the lively performers and Red Foley’s steady hosting. The digital restoration adds vibrancy to the nostalgia, making it both a preservation and a celebration of golden-era radio.